FBI Offers $10,000 Rewards to Stem Laser-Pointer Incidents

The FBI has a long history of offering rewards for terrorists, bank robbers, and all sorts of scoundrels. Now it’s offering money to catch people misusing laser pointers.

Twelve different offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Tuesday they will pay $10,000 for information that leads to an arrest for pointing lasers at aircraft – a dangerous practice that can temporarily blind pilots.

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